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constituting the church: Catholic missionaries on the Sepik frontier
Author(s) -
HUBER MARY TAYLOR
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1987.14.1.02a00070
Subject(s) - frontier , christian ministry , new guinea , metropolitan area , sociology , history , anthropology , theology , ethnology , archaeology , philosophy
Over the years, Catholic missionaries of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea have developed special ways of supporting their mission economically, of forming their own community, and of ministry. Through an examination of three successive periods in mission history, I attempt to understand SVD practice in terms of the tension between local imperatives and metropolitan ideals.